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Trees in New Earswick near my Grannie’s house, she was called Beryl

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​ Here is a painting of sone trees near my grandmothers bungalow.  Here is another painting of them. I was after capturing the light beneath the main big one.  I think I got the leaves alright in this one. But I probably like the first one best 

The trees on the geeen in front of my grandmother’s bungalow

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​ A2 mount board is big stuff and awkward to store in the homestead. Because of which, I am sticking this here, before it gets anymore scuffed on the floor in my little room. Observe the trees and the shadows cast by them. You are standing beneath the trees, in the shadow cast by them. It is a singular shadow cast by a number of them.  The leaves are made of chalk, some of them, but mainly it is that they are acrylic leaves. I tried to make the light out of chalk.  There are perhaps some further trees in the distance, but you would have to walk a greater distance than I have painted to find them. Or just turn around, which is a possibility for you also, but it depends where you are standing, and how many trees are around you at the time  These trees are on the green in front of my grandmother’s bungalow (apostrophe, yes, but even when she was around it was owned by the Trust and rented out to them). The view in the distance is not what’s there - there are some houses, but...